The story of Olympic boxer Claressa Shields is told in The First Inside. As a kid, Claressa Shields (Ryan Destiny) snuck into the gym of volunteer boxing coach Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry) eager to learn how to box. Jason takes Claressa under his wing and five years later, she is on her way to…
Two Syrian sisters try to start a new life in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley in Valley of Exile. In 2013, at the start of the Syrian war, sisters Rima (Maria Hassan) and Nour (Hala Hosni) fled their home in Homs to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. The sisters find themselves locked out of the apartment arranged…
William Shatner reflects on his life and career in William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill. Now in his 90s, William Shatner sits down to reflect on his life growing up in Montreal and his career as an actor, most famously as Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek. Shatner also reflects on what type…
A farmer seeks justice for the gang rape of his 13-year-old daughter in To Kill a Tiger. One night in Jharkhand, India, a 13-year-old girl is raped by three men. However, when her rice farmer father Ranjit reported the incident to police, they instead suggested that his daughter just marry one of the rapists. Ranjit…
Four Asian-American women go on a journey across Asia to locate one of their birth mothers in Joy Ride. Audrey (Ashley Park) is an Asian woman who was adopted as a baby by white American parents. As Audrey leaves on a business trip to Beijing, her childhood best friend Lolo (Sherry Cola) suggests that they…
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A naive young man joins a grizzled veteran on a Buffalo hunt in Butcher’s Crossing. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) is a Harvard dropout who travels to the town of Butcher’s Crossing, Kansas hoping to join in on the booming market for Buffalo pelts. After questioning local trader JD McDonald (Paul Raci), Will comes across Miller…
A man in a post-apocalyptic world builds a robot companion in Finch. Finch Weinberg (Tom Hanks) is one of the few survivors of a solar flare, which destroyed the ozone layer, resulted in uninhabitable levels of ultraviolet radiation. Finch spends his days scavenging the ruins of St. Louis while coming home at night to take…
A group of recreational cave divers assist with an operation to save a Thai soccer team stuck in a cave in The Rescue. In 2018, the arrival of monsoon rains trapped twelve boys and their soccer coach in a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. A huge operation begins to first locate and rescue the missing soccer team…
The life and career of the famous underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau is revisited in Becoming Cousteau. Jacques-Yves Cousteau began his fascination with the underwater world going freediving with his friends Philippe Tailliez and Frédéric Dumas in the 1940s French riviera, with the three helping to develop a breathing regulator that helped to negate the need for…
